BOSTON – Pedro Martinez wouldn’t talk about his pitch to Karim Garcia, and Manny Ramirez didn’t stick around to say much about Roger Clemens’ pitch to him.

So it was up to their teammates to decipher their behavior.

Let’s start with Garcia’s at-bat in the fourth. With a run in and Yankees on second and third and nobody out, Garcia came to the plate. Catcher Jason Varitek talked about the approach.

“Got to keep that run there, period,” Varitek said. “Try and keep everything at a minimum and keep the score where it is. For whatever reason, things escalated. I’m not going to sit here and speak and think that I can read somebody’s mind. I’m not going to play that.”

Martinez’s pitch was behind Garcia and caught him on the back/shoulder, although TV replays showed that the ball may not have hit Garcia. As for the Ramirez at-bat, Clemens threw a fourth-inning fastball head-high, but not really inside. Ramirez took offense, taking a few steps to the mound before being restrained by David Ortiz (Ortiz didn’t speak either).

Ramirez’s only remark came when he was asked whether he thought that Clemens was throwing at him.

“I don’t know,” he said.

Some Sox players, though, were convinced that Clemens wasn’t aiming at Ramirez’s head.

“Roger certainly wasn’t trying to throw at his head,” Todd Walker said. “It was just high. I can understand why Manny took offense to that, but Roger had no intention on that particular pitch of hitting Manny.”

“Everything looks close at your head,” Kevin Millar said, “but I don’t think it was intentional at the time.”

Perhaps the most interesting question came to Walker, as he was asked about Ramirez’s and Martinez’s declining to talk. Didn’t they owe people an explanation for their controversial actions, rather than leaving it to their teammates to do it for them?